Book Review
Dec. 26th, 2021 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariPet
by Akwaeke Emezi
This short and engaging young adult novel is set in the fictional city of Lucille. Due to a revolution in the recent past, Lucille is free of monsters and thus a place of safety and community. Jam is very close to her parents and her best friend Redemption, and has grown up in the belief that monsters no longer exist. One day, Jam cuts herself in her mother's studio, causing a strange and fearsome creature to emerge from a newly-finished painting. Pet, as the creature calls itself, has come to hunt a monster, which it claims is lurking in Redemption's home. Jam must figure out how to protect her friend from something no one else will admit even exists.
Pet was really good. I loved the details of Lucille, a city that could be almost anywhere and a setting that is not very distinct from the present. I loved the examination of the dangers of what we miss when we let our assumptions about the world cloud our vision. You can't fix what you can't or won't see.
by Akwaeke Emezi
This short and engaging young adult novel is set in the fictional city of Lucille. Due to a revolution in the recent past, Lucille is free of monsters and thus a place of safety and community. Jam is very close to her parents and her best friend Redemption, and has grown up in the belief that monsters no longer exist. One day, Jam cuts herself in her mother's studio, causing a strange and fearsome creature to emerge from a newly-finished painting. Pet, as the creature calls itself, has come to hunt a monster, which it claims is lurking in Redemption's home. Jam must figure out how to protect her friend from something no one else will admit even exists.
Pet was really good. I loved the details of Lucille, a city that could be almost anywhere and a setting that is not very distinct from the present. I loved the examination of the dangers of what we miss when we let our assumptions about the world cloud our vision. You can't fix what you can't or won't see.
